Original Word: ἐλεύθερος, έρα, ερονPart of Speech: AdjectiveTransliteration: eleutherosPhonetic Spelling: (el-yoo'-ther-os)Definition: free, not a slave or not under restraintUsage: free, delivered from obligation.

2.free, exempt, unrestrained, not bound by an obligation: 1 Corinthians 9:1; ἐκπάντων (see ἐκ, I. 6 at the end), 1 Corinthians 9:19; ἀπότίνος, free from i. e. no longer under obligation to, so that one may now do what was formerly forbidden by the person or thing to which he was bound, Romans 7:3 (cf. Winers Grammar, 196f (185); Buttmann, 157f (138), 269 (231)); followed by an infinitive (Winers Grammar, 319 (299); Buttmann, 260 (224)), ἐλευθέραἐστιν ... γαμηθῆναι she is free to be married, has liberty to marry, 1 Corinthians 7:39; exempt from paying tribute or tax, Matthew 17:26.

3. in an ethical sense: free from the yoke of the Mosaic law, Galatians 4:26; 1 Peter 2:16; from the bondage of sin, John 8:36; left to one's own will and pleasure, with the dative of respect, τῇδικαιοσύνη, so far as relates to righteousness, as respects righteousness,Romans 6:20 (Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 k.; Buttmann, § 133, 12).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

free man, free woman, at liberty.

Probably from the alternate of erchomai; unrestrained (to go at pleasure), i.e. (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or manumitted), or (genitive case) exempt (from obligation or liability) -- free (man, woman), at liberty.